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To think we can leave bed bugs here

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 20:31

Been in a mobile home for 2 nights and last night I woke up feeling bites, now I’ve got some classic marks of bed bugs on my hip and side. About 8 bites in a row.

I spoke to the manager of the home and she had a good look around the bed etc and said there are no signs. She took me seriously but said she really didn’t think it was.

We’re leavong tomorrow, Aibu to think if these are bed bugs I can avoid taking them back with us? We are in our car and have loads of clobber, naturally. Any tips?

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 21:47

I am going to cry now. I just dug out that thing - it is dead if it was a thing. I think a leg has fallen off.
It’s 10.45 at no and we leave in the morning. Shall I just sleep here? Sad

To think we can leave bed bugs here
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Hodgehegg · 26/08/2018 21:49

Thats grim. I'd be getting in the car now OP. You're not going to sleep either way.

You also need a full refund.

FrankiesKnuckle · 26/08/2018 21:50

Oh love, don't cry!

I can't say for sure, I'm
Sorry.

And I apologize if I've caused you alarm.

Janleverton · 26/08/2018 21:52

Google images includes pics of dead bugs that aren’t dissimilar. 😬

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 21:55

We can’t be sure. But what about those bites?

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FloweringOrchid · 26/08/2018 22:02

Get straight back onto the manager in the morning regardless of how you play things tonight. Show them all of the pictures youve shown us. Explain that it will cross contaminate with your house and belongings and you want a refund + compensation towards this immediately. That bed looks grubby surely they flip the mattress and wipe down every now and then? Hope the bites heal up soon Sad

Holidayshopping · 26/08/2018 22:05

The bites look like flea bites

findingmywaytoday · 26/08/2018 22:05

Honestly bed bugs are little bastards. We stayed in a lovely old palazzo in Italy. After 1st night I had loads of bites which I put down to mozzies. 2nd night realised we had a bedbug infestation - we'd gone back for a nap late afternoon and woke up around midnight. They were literally crawling out of the tiniest of cracks in the stone walls, wooden bed frame. We left there and then - hotel found us alternative accommodation in another hotel. What we didn't bin we had washed on the hottest temp possible.

Pavlova31 · 26/08/2018 22:08

I also think they are flea bites.

SinkGirl · 26/08/2018 22:10

No experience but I’m so sorry! I’d put everything into sealed bags before you put it in the car if I were you (although if you have a roof box I’d put everything fabric in there as at least it’s contained). I hope you can get compensated and get some better advice from someone who knows what they’re doing!

NotTheWayISeeIt · 26/08/2018 22:13

Do you have a hoover? Can you put some tights or Muslim over the end of the hose and see if you can hoover some bugs onto the tights/cloth?

The dried bug might be a bed bug and the bites might be bed bug bites but it would be good to be certain

BTW. I'd cry too 🙁

NotTheWayISeeIt · 26/08/2018 22:14

Ugh sorry for terrible typo. I meant muslin 😕

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 22:15

Will speak to the manager in the am. She did seem worried as another place had them from the same company this year.

We’re going to get home and dump everything on the drive, strip off, run in and shower. Then I’ll work my way through washing and steaming everything.

Just got 24 hours on a ferry in between leaving here and getting home Confused

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RedneckStumpy · 26/08/2018 22:15

Stand the legs of your bed at home in bowls of water. A bean can will do if it fits.

Any bed bugs in your luggage will drown in the water as they try to climb the legs of you bed

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 22:16

No hoover.

Good idea re the roofbox.

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RebeccaCloud9 · 26/08/2018 22:17

I would NOT go to bed in the same bed tonight no matter how annoying or difficult that is. I wish I hadn't ignored the bed bugs the time I got bitten as the bites from one night were hell for days and days (over a week).

mumsastudent · 26/08/2018 22:19

I am sure I read somewhere that people put clothes in freezer because it kills bed bugs -so (1)empty freezer (2) place everything in drawers (3) attempt to gt frozen folded clothes out of freezer (could be interesting it reminds me of putting nappies on line & them freezing folded great fun getting off line

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 22:20

I’m not in same bed now bit with children . Dh is though

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eco1636 · 26/08/2018 22:25

I’m also sleeping with pants on what if they bite my bits argggg

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mumsastudent · 26/08/2018 22:26

apparently you need to freeze the little blighters for 4 days at minus 3.2 centigrade

holidaycountdown54321 · 26/08/2018 22:26

I have had the misfortune of experiencing bedbugs twice (backpacking in se Asia and Australia). Your bites don't appear to be in a neat straight line as mine were they are a bit more random and I wouldn't say the bug you pulled out is one. If that bed frame had them you'd see a lot of black dots from their dropping on the frame itself too. That being said if I was you I'd still be causious just in case.

When they happened to me I boiled and then tumble dried anything that could be, as that's the only thing that kills them really, heat. I was lucky I just had a backpack and not a car load 😬. Make sure you check EVERYTHING my friend found them in the spine of her book and I had them in the zip of my bag, happily running around! Bag had wheels so couldn't be tumblr dried, I ended up going to the chemist and I think I got tea tree oil to spray on my bag, they don't like it apparently (if I remember rightly)!

When I got home from traveling months later I put the bag in the shed and it never came out again (only to be thrown out by my parents 10 years later!). If you do have them be very wary about taking anything in your house! I was paranoid even after months and months that I'd take them home.

Janleverton · 26/08/2018 22:27

www.atoncepest.com/how-to-tell-i-have-bedbugs/

There are pics of different bites on here.

Has anyone else been bitten? Only the marks in your photo don’t look far off a shingles rash as pp posted.

Freddiepurrcury · 26/08/2018 22:30

Oh what a nightmare! If it helps, I had almost exactly the same pattern of bites and went mental searching for bedbugs, turned out my cat had fleas. I hope it’s a false alarm for you too.

Mummymummums · 26/08/2018 22:30

I was bitten by bed bugs but didn't realise until I arrived home later that day and the 4 of us in the room were covered. They tend to bite top half of body mostly I believe. They were, by far, the most itchy bites I have ever had, and I'm someone who reacts to mozzie bites. The bed bug bites kept me up half the night for over a week, and still itched weeks later. I had about 40 bites. By some miracle none came home with me.
The owner didn't dispute it and closed the place for treatment. They then owned up that they'd had the place treated a few weeks before. Obvs unsuccessfully.
Good luck! Hope it's something else.

FrankiesKnuckle · 26/08/2018 22:32

Re bites.

I only noticed once that I had 4 bites in a line, the rest were random.
Also, I don't tend to react to bites (probably due to the fuck ton of meds and antihistamines I'm on for allergies)

Some people don't react at all so it doesn't mean you are not getting bitten.